I was in an ER Wednesday, one incoming lady with flu symptoms passed out at the door was helped inside and was sat in the same small room as the rest of us...and close to me. An elderly man was wheeled in, profusely sweating, shivering, wrapped in a blanket, battling nausea and begging, “Help me, God help me! Someone, please help me!”that is the way their waiting room is normally set up, but everyone enters through the same door and there is no wall between the two sides of the waiting room
now, the patients with respiratory symptoms will come in the back door and will be comepletly separated from the "healthy" ones
i think respiratory patients will also be asked to wait in their car, until a nurse comes to get them
exactly why they asked me to try and divide it best I could (in a way that didnt look scary)I was in an ER Wednesday, one incoming lady with flu symptoms passed out at the door was helped inside and was sat in the same small room as the rest of us...and close to me. An elderly man was wheeled in, profusely sweating, shivering, wrapped in a blanket, battling nausea and begging, “Help me, God help me! Someone, please help me!”
And he was also placed in the small area waiting area with the rest of us - for about an hour before I was removed to another room. He was wheeled to another room about 1.5 hrs later.
So, isolation in the ER is not guaranteed.
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz